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Don, Thanks Again. You are right of course, 24 hours is ridiculous. Of course what will really happen is that I'll ask for $50 K dollars and get $5,000. But I'm not as naive as all that, in general I do keep abreast of developments. Hey thats how I found 3DS! And folks on this forum to ask technical questions to! And luckily our lab goal is to provide digital and video imaging capabilities to painting and sculpture students—I can get away with lots of slack in output quality. We're content, content, content. We want to get them up and running as soon as possible and most of their out put is VHS. (Of course when I get together with my videographer friends I quickly realize that "Broadcast Quality" is one of those words with a broad definition. (g) Their stuff always looks terrific.) Anyway, my own interest is leaning more and more to 3DS as a really usable 3D modeling tool with a terrific rendering capability. My artistic interest is to use the product, and my educational interest is to introduce some digital tools to hip art students whose background is in painting and sculpture, i.e. the tools have to be user friendly enough so they can get up to speed without to much prep. I'd be happy with this round of funding to get a PAR, an Exebyte, and a 3/4" Umatic. (G) I'm not quite ready to jump on the digital video bandwagon quite yet. I have a SuperMac Digital Film Card on a MAC Quadra 950 and its been lots of fun—but it ain't BetaSP. I'm definitely interested in the MAX (Is Studio Pro still an item?) and recently took a long hard look at an AVID system with a videographer friend. My instinct tells me the AVID might be to much system for my students. Lots of different hands fiddle with this gear. I'll be checking out the FAST, and hang onto my Targa+64, and hoping for some $$ for a PAR— Now if I can get Autodesk to donate 6 copies of 3DS to my new lab I promise to do a good job teaching this hot program. (B G!) (Actually software funding is more difficult for me than hardware. Microstation just offered us Mac, Intel PC, and SGI versions of their CAD program and the administrators wonder why I want real money to buy 3DS.) Thanks again for the good info, I'll be checking the stuff out. Carlton Don, Thanks Again. You are right of course, 24 hours is ridiculous. Of course what will really happen is that I'll ask for $50 K dollars and get $5,000. But I'm not as naive as all that, in general I do keep abreast of developments. Hey thats how I found 3DS! And folks on this forum to ask technical questions to! And luckily our lab goal is to provide digital and video imaging capabilities to painting and sculpture students—I can get away with lots of slack in output quality. We're content, content, content. We want to get them up and running as soon as possible and most of their out put is VHS. (Of course when I get together with my videographer friends I quickly realize that "Broadcast Quality" is one of those words with a broad definition. (g) Their stuff always looks terrific.) Anyway, my own interest is leaning more and more to 3DS as a really usable 3D modeling tool with a terrific rendering capability. My artistic interest is to use the product, and my educational interest is to introduce some digital tools to hip art students whose background is in painting and sculpture, i.e. the tools have to be user friendly enough so they can get up to speed without to much prep. I'd be happy with this round of funding to get a PAR, an Exebyte, and a 3/4" Umatic. (G) I'm not quite ready to jump on the digital video bandwagon quite yet. I have a SuperMac Digital Film Card on a MAC Quadra 950 and its been lots of fun—but it ain't BetaSP. I'm definitely interested in the MAX (Is Studio Pro still an item?) and recently took a long hard look at an AVID system with a videographer friend. My instinct tells me the AVID might be to much system for my students. Lots of different hands fiddle with this gear. I'll be checking out the FAST, and hang onto my Targa+64, and hoping for some $$ for a PAR— Now if I can get Autodesk to donate 6 copies of 3DS to my new lab I promise to do a good job teaching this hot program. (B G!) (Actually software funding is more difficult for me than hardware. Microstation just offered us Mac, Intel PC, and SGI versions of their CAD program and the administrators wonder why I want real money to buy 3DS.) Thanks again for the good info, I'll be checking the stuff out. Carlton